Metayanked from cassielsander, who thinks we should all get to know each other better.

[muckefuck]

I just realised: I've been participating in the "burbling cocktail party that is LiveJournal" (quoth bitterlawngnome) for over two years now and I still don't know what most of y'all have in hand. So today's survey question is: What's your drink?

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[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

Default: Sapphire and tonic, god help my liver.

Upscale: Oban

Just plain weird: On the Bloom (http://www.livejournal.com/users/my_tallest/61561.html)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

No lime in the G&T?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Today? A mug of "free-range chicken broth".
Any other workday? Raspberry seltzer, black coffee, black tea, or a diet Coke.
In theory? A gin and tonic, maybe a gimlet, made with Hendrick's gin. Or a glass of big fat earthy red wine. Or maybe just tequila.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Most frequent: hot tea

What most people would pick for me: bourbon and ginger ale

Schmancy: Highland single-malt Scotch (pref. Talisker)

[grahamwest.livejournal.com]

Teetotal for almost exactly ten years. The anniversary is sometime this month although I forget when.

So, something alcohol-free, sugar-free and lately also caffeine-free. I'll make occasional exceptions to the sugar part :-)

[d3l1r1um.livejournal.com]

Depending on whether I'm trying to stay away from caffeine, daily is diet pepsi or decaf diet pepsi, fresca, and sprite zero. Water. Occasional thai iced tea or another sweet milk tea (like pearl/bubble tea, except most of the time I don't get the tapioca).

No alcohol for me, except on very rare occasions. For that I like muscats and other low-proof sweet sparkling wines.

[gopower.livejournal.com]

Yay Fresca! Or, in a pinch because so few places carry Fresca, Diet Mountain Dew is acceptable (only in plastic bottles though, canned version is nasty).

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Girly drinks: Cosmopolitans, white Russians, margaritas, that sort of thing. Though I do enjoy a good big flavorful beer when I can get one.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yes! Yay beer!

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Yep, when I drink alcohol these days it's usually girly -- margaritas, Cosmos, black Russian's, Mike's hard lemonade. Or a good single-malt Scotch.

I generally prefer iced tea, though.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I am shocked! shocked! shocked! to see a greengrocer's apostrophe from you of all people. Well, maybe not that shocked, maybe just a little taken aback. And hurt--definitely hurt.

What is the world coming to when a drink with a totally butch name like "Mike's hard lemonade" is really a girly drink? I feel so disillusioned! Betrayed even. Yours has been a dispiriting post all around. Where's my cheap manly hooch?

[keyne.livejournal.com]

That's called "typing/thinking too fast and anticipating the apostrophe". (It's been a lousy day, so I'm not even going to bother to be horrified. Presumably you know me well enough to cut me some slack here.)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I do this all the damn time. I don't even have to be girl-drink drunk! Or having a particularly bad day.

[welcomerain.livejournal.com]

Peach lambic.
Or, if I'm at a normal bar, white Russian.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

coffee, ruibos, ginger-tea lemonade, not too sweet iced tea

port, Unicum + orange juice, honey-wheat Sleeman's, Guiness

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Is there anything you can liken the Unicum to? Any other herbals (amari, Chartreuse, Mechitarine, Jaegermeister) that taste similar? Cause I can't imagine mixing any of them with o.j.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

It's an acquired taste ... it's v bitter, I think based on anise, not very different from most of those others except on the specific blend and bitterness of herbs. Actually I made one out of feverfew once that was similar, too. I drink this room temp or a little warm, especially when I have a cold with fever and aches & pains. It settles the stomach and clears that yucky phlegmy feeling.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

Fernet Branca, maybe, or Becherovka? It's not sweet like Jäger.

PS. I'm a wino, but you knew that already.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I tend to think of you rather as a connaisseur des vins, but that's only because, when I do buy wines, I spend even less than you typically do.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

More like amateur, y'know.

Tonight's bottle is the $27.99 3 liter bottle of Italian plonk they're selling at Trader Joe's this month.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

Gin & tonic, or Guinness.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Gin & tonic (or, in a pinch, a tom collins) is my drink of choice for playing badminton.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I can beat even the best gin & tonic at badminton any day of the week. Even with a ten-point handicap!

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

You keep score???

[kayiwa.livejournal.com]

I am yet to find a Stout I don't like.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Staff of life: diet Coke.

Alcoholic, common: straight Vodka, ice-cold, though not on the rocks if it's been properly stored in the freezer. (currently Armadale)

Alcoholic, special occasion: girl drinks, mostly, especially anything brightly-colored and frozen. (I'm not ashamed of my sweet tooth, though I've been reining it in somewhat of late.) Hard cider is good. I've also got a sample pack of single-malt Scotches that I'm in the process of trying to educate myself about, though whether I'll learn to actually like them remains to be seen.

What is the world coming to when a drink with a totally butch name like "Mike's hard lemonade" is really a girly drink? I feel so disillusioned! Betrayed even.

If you prefer, think of it as a gateway drug-- it's pretty much fills the same space that wine coolers did were when we were younger. (The industry term is "alcopop".) Naturally, I like it quite a bit myself.

[princeofcairo.livejournal.com]

One True Drink: Vodka tonic. ("Lime?" "Thanks.")

I actually prefer Wyborowa to even Grey Goose, but there's no denying the power of the Belvedere.

Although I have to say that if I had all of ze moneys, I could get used to those Matchbar cherry caipirinhas pretty fast.

Scotch!!! and of course strong coffee...

[monshu.livejournal.com]

Definitely a single malt scotch--preferable very peaty, smoky (like me), and with that hint of iodine. Since it is not acceptable or productive to sip it all day, good strong coffee (dark roast beans) is good from 3:30 AM til noon.

Re: Scotch!!! and of course strong coffee...

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I NOW POUNCE ON MONSHU AND WIGGLE!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Hey, you two! Get a room! (A big one. With room enough for me to watch!)

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

WOOHOO!

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I usually don't drink alcohol period, so I'm more for sweet coffees, hot cocoas ...

But when I DO drink -- gimme a fuzzy navel for bear night, a mimosa for brunch, or a nice tej when I'm doing something more high-end. ^o^

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Caipirinhas when I can get them (sadly, not often enough). Vodka tonics make a good standby as they are always available. Other potent potables are sidecars, brandy (Duque de Alba so far tops the list), and good old fashioned wine and beer.

Mostly I indulge in such non-alcoholic staples as Coke and occassionally cocoa, coffee or iced tea. Right now, because I'm under the weather, I'm sucking back a lot of orange juice and hot tea.

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

At home, whisk(e)y (I switch from Irish to single malt Scotch depending on mood) or now that it's getting chilly, I'll start opening my Port.

At a bar, depends. At Julius they make a very dry Manhattan. Sublime. And my alcoholic family's answer to Proust's madeleines; we fought nastily over the cherries in our parents's drinks. The Monster thinks they know how to make real martinis. The Dugout? Well, er, lite beer; it's cheap and you don't care. Locally, I have a number of good Irish bars within easy staggering distance and the Guinness on tap is mighty fine.

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

Strong white coffee. Guinness. Black coffee with cheap whisky (if I drank this more often I'd go more upmarket). Whisky Mac. Whisky and dry ginger...

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Dry ginger? That's some kind of Britishism, isn't it? Because I can't imagine sprinkling poundered ginger root into anything you'd want to drink, let alone whisky.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing ginger ale.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Then what is ginger ale? Something alcoholic? It's also so damn confusing!

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

Hey, you can't blame that confusion on the UK! I had ginger beer (ie ginger ale) at podling's and got laughed at for thinking it might be alcoholic in US form.
So, yeah, like lemonade but gingery and less sweet (dry vs sweet rather than dry vs wet).

[lhn.livejournal.com]

In the US, ginger beer tends to be more highly spiced/flavored than ginger ale; ginger ale has historically been much more popular. (I grew up with ginger ale being one of the default soft drink choices, where I don't think I'd ever heard of ginger beer till college.) Though Vernors, a regional brand of ginger ale consumed mostly in Michigan, is aged and falls I think somewhere between a standard Canada Dry or Schweppes ginger ale and ginger beer.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Because I can't imagine sprinkling poundered ginger root into anything you'd want to drink, let alone whisky.

BTW, apparently Stone's Green Ginger Wine, a component of the Whisky Mac (neither of which I'd heard of till teapot_farm's post), is "a peppy currant wine from England that's flavored with ground ginger". One begins to sense a pattern.

This exchange also prompts me to reflect that ginger ale seemed to be much more common as a soft drink (and, I think, a mixer) when I was a kid than it is now. The colas (and to a lesser extent the lemon-lime sodas) seems to have advanced substantially over other flavors even compared with the 70s and 80s. (Orange soda was also more common then, if my memory is accurate.)

[teapot-farm.livejournal.com]

A currant wine? How bizarre. That's the one though - and yes, I am a ginger freak, I admit it. I suspect I have overabundant yin...
And I agree, a lot of things are getting narrowed down to a smaller range of tastes - not only soda, but candies and things as well. Depressing. And an incentive to create weird toffees.